Turin, June 15th, 2005

Loquendo, the global speech technology company, presents two new Emotional TTS Voices: Italian personas Paola and Luca join Loquendo’s rapidly expanding portfolio of emotional voices.

Loquendo is the first speech technology vendor to enable its customers to make their vocal messages expressive. Just like human conversation, expressive intention is conveyed through conventional formulas and interjections, which are pronounced naturally and colorfully. As a result, synthetic voice messages are truly lifelike and customers enjoy interacting with them even more.

Loquendo TTS software has been enriched with a repertoire of "expressive cues", which enable TTS users to enliven their voice prompts. Loquendo’s Expressive TTS is a fundamental step towards fully human-sounding synthetic speech.

Loquendo offers a full range of technological components to rapidly and easily create best-of-breed solutions in 16 languages. Currently available languages include U.S. and U.K. English, Castilian, Catalan, Mexican, Chilean and Argentinean Spanish, Italian, German, French, Dutch, Greek, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian, Portuguese and Swedish in both male and female voices.

For a demo of expressive Paola and Luca, please click here:

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To meet the Loquendo TTS family, please click here.

About Loquendo - Vocal Technology and Services
With over 30 years of R&D expertise, Loquendo is at the forefront of the global speech technologies market. Its high-quality, high-performance technologies (Loquendo TTS - text to speech, Loquendo ASR - automatic speech recognition, Loquendo Speech Server, Loquendo Speaker Verification) and platforms guarantee systems integrators the best solutions in 16 languages and 36 voices - with more coming soon.
From its headquarters in Turin, Italy, Loquendo deploys technologies that power millions of calls every day in the telecommunications and enterprise markets throughout the world.

For more information, visit www.loquendo.com.